Eric Brandom

A chart outlining some elements of French state student funding mechanisms and how they changed in the 19th century.

Love a good chart

Calling all contingent historians and their editors--if you haven't submitted for this year's lists, why not? Seriously, these are our most highly read pieces of the year. They are a great way to get your scholarship in front of people and SELL YOUR BOOKS.

Good stuff

That is a really bizarre little bit of text

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Print of a muscular upraised fist, signed “cieciorka 65”

The artist must be this guy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_C...

ahhhhh -- nice! you're right it's the same guy, clearly

Flipping through this thing, it's hard not be charmed! Also appalled here and there.

Which *also* includes an article about how it's probably time to rethink vaccines in favor of natural immunity wholeearth.info/p/the-last-s...

Front and back book cover, details available on website

Lise Vogel’s The Contested Domain (edited by me) is officially released today!!! I hope it will be a resource for people interested in Lise’s rigorous approach to social thought (spanning 5 decades) that creates theoretical openings for an inclusive Marxist Feminism.

This and the abe Lincoln are both snipped from the supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog from 1971.

Line drawn cartoon. A single file line of nude individuals gesticulating in various ways curves from the top of the image to our left down, getting closer to us. It appears almost to be emerging from the head of a bearded and long haired man sitting to the right. Perhaps coming at the head of the line is a standing nude figure, giving this larger figure the middle finger. The label says, "the last judgement"

Cartoon of a shaggy abe Lincoln, "keep American beautiful....get a haircut!"

The Psychoanalysis of Fire by Gaston Bachelard: 9780807064610 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books "[Bachelard] is neither a self-confessed and tortured atheist like Satre, nor, like Chardin, a heretic combining a belief in God with a proficiency in modern science. But, within the French context, h...

It's got problems! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/203930...

To scan the lines of his face, or feel the bumps on the head of this Leviathan; this is a thing which no Physiognomist or Phrenologist has as yet undertaken.

Hey historians 🗃️: Do you know of presses that publish short books (around 30K words / 90 pages plus notes)? I have been working on an article project that could easily turn into an great micro-history of that length, but I'm not sure it would make it to the usual full 60-90K words...

one of my favorite poems ever:

An engraving of Samuel Johnson looking serious. A quote of his hovers above — “any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef”

bro loved to beef

If there is not already scholarship on Lin Manuel-Miranda's Hamilton and Ezra Pound's Adams Cantos from a strictly metrical perspective, well, it's a sign of decline in the US academy

Same guy, who is...to the right, to put it mildly, directed both!

Maybe throw in They Live.

I feel like Red Dawn is pretty good, especially as a double feature with Conan the Barbarian.

Easy! Easy!

This is great! Is there any chance there's a smaller public-facing write up I could share with undergraduates?

Academic seizing the means of scholarly production, like Rediker's pirates. Possibly to meet the same fate.

"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

I abominate all honorable respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind whatsoever. It is quite as much as I can do

Covers of the day (Peter Mendelsund for Schocken)

Ahhh -- good stuff, thank you!

Have been liking Fly By Jing's Sichuan Chili Crisp, but have had some local chili crisps that I didn't like as much. Are there other good commercially available ones?